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This is a statue memorializing the U.S. Army’s Green Berets and other Special Forces soldiers who gallantly brought the fight to the Taliban in Afghanistan in the early days after September 11th.
During their action they spent time riding into combat on horseback along side their Afghan allies.
The statue, by artist Douwe Blumberg, is 1 1/2 times life ...
“A Christmas Carol” starring George C Scott as Scrooge was filmed on location in Shrewsbury and broadcast on CBS in the United States and released in theaters in the UK in December 1984.
An original gravestone, the details long weathered away, was used for the fictional memorial to Ebenezer Scrooge. It still lies just beyond the towering Yew Tree, in the grav...
In a town known for basketball and as the birthplace of James Dean, perhaps the best-kept secret is the Quilters Hall of Fame.
The inspiration for the Hall of Fame was the woman who owned the house, Marie Webster. Marie was born in nearby Wabash, Indiana, in 1859 and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1956. During her most productive quilting years, from 1911 to...
Poste Thiers is the most famous red brick building in Nice. This iconic Post Office is located at 21 Avenue Thiers.
Poste Thiers was built in 1931 by government architect Guillaume Tronchet. The construction used about 300,000 red bricks which were imported from Sarzana, Italy.
The distinctive red brick masonry stands out in Nice because it is a sharp ...
If one should find themselves in the district of Finnieston, an up and coming, (if not trendy) area of Glasgow, they may come upon a rather unique and solitary street feature. Situated along Argyle Street, in front of a row of tenement flats, stands a rather impressive European Ash tree, ( Fraxinus exsilsior ). It’s not just its size that is outstanding, meas...